Tech Exhibitions Confirmed for WFES

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TECHNOLOGY PAVILLIONS FROM INTERNATIONAL GOVERNMENTS

CONFIRMED FOR WORLD FUTURE ENERGY SUMMIT

 

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 16th December 2008: Governments from all over the globe are bringing their leading technologies and ‘R+D’ specialists to Abu Dhabi to participate in the World Future Energy Summit. Combined with over two hundred exhibiting companies, the summit exhibition looks set to be the world’s leading technology trade fair in the renewable energy and green buildings market.

 

In a week, when the United Nations has gathered the world’s environment ministers to agree how to fight climate change, there is only one word on everyone’s lips, TECHNOLOGY. In this spirit, we look at three of the twelve national pavilions that will be participating at the World Future Energy Summit, January 19-21, 2009.

 

The Netherlands will host twenty five companies in its ‘Energy Forest’ national pavilion, including clean technology, water technology and waste to energy technology. They will be running a seminar on January 20th, ‘Sustainable Energised Society’ covering sustainable construction, Dutch architecture, clean technologies and water management.

 

The Crown Prince of the Netherlands, Prince Willem-Alexander and Mr. Frank Heemskerk, the Minister for Foreign Trade, will be officially opening the pavilion. The Netherlands will be launching the export organization ‘Cleantech Holland’ and signing a number of Memorandum of Understandings.

 

Netherlands’ companies participating include leading water experts as part of the Netherlands Gulf Region Water Platform (NGWP), Genap, producers of flexible water storage reservoirs and Sunweb, producers of break through multi crystalline back contact solar cells. LED lights from participant LEDNED will be used in the trees in the pavilion’s ‘Energy Forest’.

 

The Spanish Pavilion will host a number of companies, dominated by the national expertise, Solar technology. Torresol Energy, the joint venture between the engineering group SENER and Masdar announced at last year’s summit, will have a virtual model of its first project, Gemasolar, on show.

 

Other leading Spanish technologies at the summit will include Generalia’s high accuracy PV suntrackers for solar plants and their launch product, Spintracker: the new cost competitive suntracker for HCPV. Siliken is a leading turnkey system integrator for off-grid and on-grid solar PV systems.

 

Aries Ingeniería y Sistemas will be exhibiting a model of a thermosolar electric plant and have engineering specialists from solar, wind, bio-fuels, biomass and fuel cells. Abengoa solar will be exhibiting its leading international developer of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) and PV plants and technologies.

 

The Swiss pavilion looks set to be a hub of activity with the Swiss Minister of Environment and Energy, H.E. Moritz Leuenberger, signing a ground breaking Memorandum of Understanding with Abu Dhabi government on January 19, 2009. On the pavilion will be fourteen leading Swiss companies participating, using Abu Dhabi as its base to spread its technology and know-how across Arabia and the world.

 

myclimate, one of the world’s top carbon offset providers, will have their top management to explain Clean Development Mechanism projects and carbon offsetting solutions across the emerging world. 3 S Industries AG is an expert in the production equipment for the manufacture of solar modules and will have experts from its 3 affiliates Companies 3S Swiss Solar Systems, Pasan and Somont at the Summit.

 

NEWSGENS will be introducing a revolutionary hydrogen plant on the Island of Corfu at the Summit. The plant uses hydrogen technology to produce electric electricity and eliminate 120,000 tonnes of waste a year.  Huber + Suhner will also be participating in the pavilion.

 

The fight against climate change becomes a real business opportunity when surrounded by leading technology providers. It may be December 2009 in Copenhagen before the United Nations secures a global deal on pollution limits and investor security for renewable energy.

 

However, being positioned with the right technology to feed that market is the clever thing to do. Join the leaders, be part of the solution and the economic growth that results from being ahead of the market at the World Future Energy Summit, 19-21 January in Abu Dhabi.

 

ABOUT THE WORLD FUTURE ENERGY SUMMIT

The World Future Energy Summit held its inaugural event on 21-23 January 2008 in Abu Dhabi under the patronage of H.H. General Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces.

 

The first summit in January brought together 11,272 attendees from 77 countries, 213 exhibitors from 23 countries, over 80 speakers and 423 international and regional media.

Hosted by Masdar, WFES 09 will be hosted in the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. It is proudly supported by its principal sponsor, Credit Suisse and principal international media partner, TIME magazine.  

 

Please visit the official website for additional information: www.WorldFutureEnergySummit.com

 

ABOUT TURRET MIDDLE EAST

Turret Middle East is a leading organizer of conferences and exhibitions and a foundation partner of the Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Centre. It organizes the World Future Energy Summit on behalf of REED Exhibitions.

 

The company organizes some of the region’s biggest events including the internationally acclaimed World Future Energy Summit, winner of the AEO Best Launch Event this year, The Middle East Waste Summit, Dubai, and consumer shows such as the award winning Taste of Dubai food extravaganza, and a new event for 2009 – The International Motorsports Festival, Abu Dhabi.

 

With a new publishing department expanding rapidly into new markets, the Turret ME team is going from strength to strength. For more information go to www.turretme.com

 

ABOUT MASDAR

The Masdar Initiative is Abu Dhabi’s multi-faceted, multi-billion dollar investment in the development and commercialization of innovative technologies in renewable, alternative and sustainable energies as well as sustainable design.

 

Masdar is driven by the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (ADFEC), a wholly owned company of the government of Abu Dhabi through the Mubadala Development Company. In January 2008, Abu Dhabi announced it will invest $15 billion in Masdar, the largest single government investment of its kind.

 

For more information about the Masdar Initiative, please visit www.masdaruae.com

 

For more information on WFES please contact:

Thaisa Alvarez

Sr. PR Account Manager

V Public Relations

Tel: +971 2 6449444     

Email: thaisa@viola.ae

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